Sunday, December 16, 2012

Revenge of the Nerd

Utility became an accessory when the ‘four-eyeds’ decided to change the way 6/6 vision
world perceived eye-frames. At one of our earlier conventions, we decided to
portray John Lennon and Woody Allen as our mob-lords. With their pictures
plastered everywhere wearing their iconic glasses, we slowly began to incept
ideas as bizarre as suggesting their coolness was directly proportional to
their lens power. We still can’t believe how, even with your perfect vision,
you couldn't see through our trap. Too late now. We’re cool now. You can wear
our frames and be the poseur/douche-who-tries-too-hard; we still laugh at our
conventions. YES, we have a club. And no, you are not invited, not even with
your non-prescription glasses; you have to prove your blindness to enter. After
all those years of bullying in school (when we were called ‘four-eyed’ and our
glasses were flung around as an everyday sport), we’re finally having our
revenge. From being a minority to becoming very description of the word
‘hipster,’ we've come so far. On behalf of all the fellow nerds – thank-you for
participating, the joke’s on you.

"If Lennon and Ono had an optical-frame baby, this would be it." - Sue